New Mexico · Nonprofit
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SERVING LOS ALAMOS & RIO ARRIBA CO
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SERVING LOS ALAMOS & RIO ARRIBA CO (New Mexico) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,028,840 to it, the largest being BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ($1,663,824). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $715k
- Funders on record
- 11
- Grants received
- $2.0M
- Net assets
- $630k
What United Way of Northern New Mexico Serving Los Alamos & Rio Arriba Co does
Mission
United way of northern new mexico is a service organization that works with integrity and ethics to foster collaboration, ensure inclusivity, respect and generousity honoring family, tradition and culture.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
The community action fund improves our community by providing program grants to qualifying health and human services agencies in los alamos and rio arriba counties. The community action fund advances the common good and works to create a stronger community. We address education, health, and financial stability/basic needs so that families can grow and thrive.
$494,020 spentof which $494,020 as grants68% of program spendingThe united way of northern new mexico works to improve the lives of children and families through service collaboration. United way northern new mexico rallies individuals and organizations. Together, we turn obstacles into opportunities creating a future where collective action transforms communities. In rio arriba county there is a long-term lack of needed resources and opportunities for the most fragile age groups (young children, the disabled and elderly); and behavioral risks, including substance use disorder and opioid use disorder. Rio arriba county's rural, primarily hispanic and native american region has (1) extremely high levels of opioid abuse and deaths; (2) other health risks; (3) poverty and limited employment; (4) educational, skill, and workforce issues; and (5) economic challenges according to the 2020 rio arriba community health council health profile. According to the los alamos community services department's 2020 health services gap analysis, los alamos residents currently identify access to issues to mental health supports as a top community public health access to care issue. Availability of mental health resources related to stress and anxiety are…
$58,815 spent8% of program spendingRio arriba collective impact - to listen, convene, facilitate and help build collective action toward improved outcomes and measurable results for individuals and organizations in rio arriba and los alamos counties.
$174,449 spent24% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $727,284.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $762k to $1.1M (+47%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Liddie Martinez
Chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 6 funders, grant income rose $216k → $273k.
4 of 11 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 5% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SERVING LOS ALAMOS & RIO ARRIBA CO’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SERVING LOS ALAMOS & RIO ARRIBA CO leans on a few funders — its largest provides 82% of grant income and the top three 93%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
95% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SERVING LOS ALAMOS & RIO ARRIBA CO.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 91% · 2022 100% · 2023 76% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
75% of UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SERVING LOS ALAMOS & RIO ARRIBA CO's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SERVING LOS ALAMOS & RIO ARRIBA CO draws 98% of its grant income from funders outside New Mexico, across 4 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $93k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Organizations like UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SERVING LOS ALAMOS & RIO ARRIBA CO
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In New Mexico
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
83% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
68%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SERVING LOS ALAMOS & RIO ARRIBA CO?
- UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SERVING LOS ALAMOS & RIO ARRIBA CO (New Mexico) receives grants from 11 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,028,840 to it, the largest being BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ($1,663,824). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SERVING LOS ALAMOS & RIO ARRIBA CO have?
- IRS filings report 11 organizations giving $2,028,840 in grants to UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SERVING LOS ALAMOS & RIO ARRIBA CO, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SERVING LOS ALAMOS & RIO ARRIBA CO?
- BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE is the largest funder on record, with $1,663,824 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN NEW MEXICO SERVING LOS ALAMOS & RIO ARRIBA CO find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New Mexico. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 11 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing